Imagine the highlight of your career being a poor man's Walter Duranty.

Being an amoral fuck pays very well these days.

Cactus trafficking? I'd hate to be a mule for that racket.

In fairness, it was a hard case to prosecute.

Unless your friend is doing the Hollywood thing of using Wegovy to make herself look like a Holocaust survivor, what the hell?

TACO Wednesday, folks.

GUYS.

They made the Pauls Valley principal, who stopped a would be school shooter almost single-handed, PROM KING at his school's prom

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This is my life. With a kid it's 100x worse.

Out of all the drunk, corrupt, moronic people he's surrounded himself with, apparently only the women are drunk, corrupt and moronic enough to be fired. Or maybe not drunk, corrupt and moronic enough to stay on.

Sure, but a more engaged electorate wouldn't make finance reform so necessary. We keep wanting to pass laws to protect us from ourselves.

How bad has the anti-woke faction gotten when they don't think you should be able to teach about sexuality to *adults*.

IQ has its uses in measuring abstract reasoning ability. But its uses are limited. I work in astrophysics with some people who are terrifyingly smart. I have no idea what their IQs are. If someone put their IQ on a resume, I'd throw it away.

A) let kids be interested in things.
B) Dinosaurs are a great way for kids to learn that they are part of a big wide world with an ancient history and beasts that can boggle the imagination. This is to be encouraged.

“Average IQ is 70” among other things seems to fundamentally misunderstand what IQ

These numbers also come from one 30 year old paper extrapolating African “national IQ” from a single test administered to orphans at an anemia clinic (n=17) by the Capetown Institute of Racial Purity

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In 20th-century science fiction, humanoid robots who could do menial labor were depicted as the norm. But as cybernetics evolved, engineers discovered that it is not at all easy to build a machine to perform any of even a narrow range of the variety of activities any minimum-wage employee can do.

The correct termsfor a man who would willingly sleep with a much younger woman is "a man".

It’s nice when the good guys win one, isn’t it?

As a general rule, I try to leave spouses out of the crossfire. But we’re seeing a host of MAGA wives — Katie Miller and Melania also leap to mind — who are almost as bad as their husbands. MAGA Magdas, if you will.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes

Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

Oh good lord.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

This is why I think MAGA is pissing in the wind on fossil fuels and alternative energy (no pun intended). The market forces are becoming irresistible. If the revival of nuclear takes off, our entire energy budget will shift to the benefit of the world.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

(Also, I suspect he’s pulling that number out of his racist ass.)

Not the important point here, but IQ is incredibly malleable and more reflects the quality and kind of education one receives than intrinsic intelligence. If you account for the Flynn Effect, our grandparents or ggparents had IQs of 70.

Also, IQ is very malleable! Any supposed deficiency in Somali IQ would not be genetic, but a reflection of malnutrition and lack of educational opportunities.

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

Mr. Takei has become such a national icon that when I introduced my daughter to TOS, she said “hey, wait, I know that guy from the internet!”